A scuffle with police at a convenience store led to the arrest of a Columbus man Saturday night.

Police report being called to assist with a drunk man who was refusing to leave a gas station in the 1100 block of Washington Street at about  7:55 p.m. Saturday night. They encountered 27-year-old Joseph B. Caudill, who was causing a disturbance and began resisting police when they tried to arrest him. The fight went to the floor, where he was put into restraints and taken to Columbus Regional Hospital to be checked out.

After being released from the hospital he was taken to jail on preliminary charges of public intoxication, trespassing and resisting law enforcement.

A stolen, city-owned golf course maintenance vehicle was recovered, after it was found being driven on the People Trail.

Columbus Police say that the vehicle had recently been stolen from the Greenbelt Golf Course, but Mark Jones, the city parks director, noticed it driving on the People Trail at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday night.

Police stopped the vehicle near McKinley and McShane avenues. The driver, 33-year-old Caleb D. Bowers, of Columbus was allegedly carrying methamphetamine and marijuana. He was arrested on preliminary charges of theft, burglary and drug possession.

A Columbus man’s return to Walmart after being banned, led to two arrests on drug charges over the weekend.

Columbus police are reporting that they were called to the store on Whitfield Drive at about 4:40 p.m. Thursday afternoon and found 30-year-old Kenton A. Wilson inside a van in the parking lot. As officers talked to Wilson and his passenger, 28-year-old Alexa A. Hicks, they noticed narcotics inside the vehicle.

A search revealed two bags of methamphetamine, syringes and drug paraphernalia in the van. Wilson and Hicks are facing preliminary charges for possessing the drugs and paraphernalia. Wilson is also being charged with criminal trespassing.

Low-income Bartholomew County residents can get free legal advice from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26th at the Legal Aid offices in the Doug Otto United Way Center in Columbus.

You can get up to a 10 minute consultation with a pro bono attorney to answer legal questions, to offer information or to receive other, limited, advice. Consultations are available on a first come first serve basis and no reservations are required.

Other upcoming legal aid clinics include .from 3 to 5 Tuesday at the Jennings County Public Library, and from 3 to 5 Wednesday at the Blue River Community Foundation in Shelby County.

The Columbus Area Visitors Center has already been offering popular and informative tours of the architectural landmarks in the city. Now those tours have been certified as educational for architects.

The visitors center announced last week that it has been approved as a continuing education provider for the American Institute of Architects. That means five of the visitors center tours can be taken by architects and will count toward continuing education credits. Members of the Institute are required to complete hours of continuing education credits annually.

The five tours that were certified are the Architecture Highlights Bus Tour, the Iconic Columbus Tour and tours of the Miller House & Garden, Inn at Irwin Gardens and Zaharakos.

You can get more information at columbus.in.us/

The city of Columbus is offering an online survey to get your thoughts on the future development the Fair Oaks Mall site.

The city of Columbus along with help from Columbus Regional Health and Heritage Fund bought the mall property near the end of last year. The goal is to move some Columbus Parks and Recreation functions to the property, to develop sports and recreation opportunities and to use the facility for community wellness purposes.

The corporation set up by the city to oversee the mall operations, has hired a consultant to develop master plans for the property.

The online survey is estimated to take 5 minutes to complete. You take the survey or get more information about the project, at reimaginefairoaksmall.com.

Columbus City Council is set to consider finalizing a ban on vaping in public places when it meets Tuesday.

The council gave its first approval to the amendment to the city smoking ordinance, when it met Aug. 6th. Local advocates including the hospital and schools asked for the change which would treat electronic smoking devices and vaping the same way as cigarettes and smoking. That would limit their use in public spaces throughout the community.

Council approved the measure unanimously on the first reading. Council meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Columbus City Hall.

You are going to see installations complementing Columbus architectural landmarks popping up this week. For the second time, Exhibit Columbus will be hosting the works by designers and architects from around the world.

Richard McCoy with Exhibit Columbus explains that there will be 18 installations with most in the downtown area, but also an installation at North Christian Church.

McCoy explains that public events surrounding the exhibition kick off Thursday with a Spanish language event at 5:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon on the library plaza.

On Friday, there will be public conversations talking to the creators about their work, starting at 4 p.m. at North Christian Church. Those conversations will continue Saturday morning at First Christian Church starting at 10 a.m.

If you can’t make it to the events with the creators, a video documentary about this year’s Miller Prize designers is available online, McCoy said.

There will also be a ticketed party in Mill Race Park on Saturday. McCoy said a few tickets are still available. You can get more information and find links to tickets at exhibitcolumbus.org.

The installations will be in place through Dec. 1st.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has activated an AMBER Alert from Crown Point, Indiana which is 138 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

The victim, Madison Elizabeth Yancy Eddlemon, is a 16 year old white female, 5 feet 1 inches tall, 97 pounds, blonde hair with green eyes, and last seen wearing a black hoodie with white tribal markings and blue jeans with tears and shin high boots with a black lace choker. Madison was last seen on Saturday, August 17, 2019, at 9:00 am in Crown Point, Indiana and is believed to be in extreme danger.

The suspect, Martin Alexander Curry-Fishtorn, is a 22 year old white male, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 158 pounds, brown hair with brown eyes, and driving a dark grey 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt with Indiana license plate number 645RIS.

If you have any information on this incident, contact the Lake County Sheriff’s Office at 219-660-0000 or 911.

Two local school systems will be receiving money from the state to increase opportunities for students to attend pre-kindergarten.

The Brown County schools will receive a grant o $90,3450, while the Shelbyville Central Schools are being granted $144,811 in early education capacity-building grants, Indiana’s Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning announced yesterday. The Clay Academy in Shelby County is also receiving $22,711

The $870,000 in grants went to 19 prekindergarten programs that are eligible for the first time this school year to participate in On My Way Pre-K, the state-funded prekindergarten program for low-income children.